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Through her life dedicated to music, the composer Irina Od?gescu brought to Romanian culture a new breath of a genuine originality. Using a complex language, profoundly anchored in the modernity of the second part of the 20th century, her musical works are distinguished by an expression force that results from an inner experience that goes to the listener, managing to convince both specialists and music lovers. This particularity of her language is exceptionally highlighted in the choral work entitled Our Father, ...

Unemployment is a phenomenon that the citizens of the Slovak Republic have been encountering since the beginning of the process of economic transformation, i.e. since the end of 1989. The rate of unemployment varies by region, social group and economic cycle. With economic growth, creation of new jobs and measures adopted by the state the possibilities of becoming employed broaden, the number of employed persons rises, and the rate of unemployment falls. The role of the state, via active and flexible state policie...

The article considers the importance of a syllable’s type and syllabic structure of words in languages of different types – analytical English, agglutinative Buryat and isolating Chinese – in light of creating the whole-system typology of languages. A strong case is made for the significance of lexicality and grammaticality of language as its typological determinant. Syllable’s structure is derivative from word’s structure and is dependent on word’s degree of lexicality or grammaticality. The paper aims to define ...

The paper presents the multi-criteria approach in the design process of residential structure as a part of a multifunctional building system. The purpose of work was to broaden the field of multifunctional building system design process. Background for the presented work is to define the direction of architectural growth of the modern city center area where actually are built complex and large capacity structures with a great impact on the total urban structure. The methodology depends on the analysis of the multi...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. However, despite the efforts of populists, Russian nihilism and revolutionary movement with its terrorist elements was totally alien and not understandable for the American political thought. And the emergence in Russia of an army of nihilists, destroyers of the foundations of society was explained by the lack of civility. And till now days the political education is understood in USA from this...

A certain article aims to develop a topic of the IT and visitor interaction in terms of a museum's space. The essay evaluates a practical implementation of the IT technologies as well as its utilitarian function. The article proves that a practice of using gesture management tools as well as semantic web possibilities are the future of the European cultural landscape. Analysis of the museum’s cases within international field gives a certain opportunity to understand both current and future possibilities of the cul...

A technological analysis of stone knapping process gives rise to a revision of the traditional in archaeology thesis by F. Bordes: "The Levallois is a technology; the Mousterian is a culture "."The phenomenon of Levallois" is interpreted in this article as a sacral, nonutilitarian process, which stands out among various technologies employed in the Middle Palaeolithic. The Levallois can be considered a phenomenon that marks the beginning of a new stage in our history, when a sacred status was attributed to an act ...

In the recent decade a noticeable increase of hotel industry interest in corporate social responsibility issues has been observed. As a result the growing number of hotel enterprises have been developing programmes and defining social and environmental goals, as well as preparing appropriate reports on their implementation, referred to as social responsibility reports (SRRs). The purpose of the article is to determine the degree of hotel industry interest in preparing SRRs and to analyse the content of nonfinancia...

The article introduces the concept of andragogy ethics as a peripheral andragogy discipline. Discussion of this concept is an expression of the interdisciplinary approach (andragogy, ethics and psychology). It justifies the need to study the development of moral character of adults in the contemporary. The concept studies a human being in current global challenges that neoliberal policies are not able to sufficiently cover. Strengthening of ethical and value dimensions as well as influencing adults through andrago...

Background: Recently, health literacy, in connection with trans-cultural problems and associated cultural competences, has become a hot topic of a number of specialties as a result of the globalized world, where the frontiers between individual states have become just imaginary lines on the map. The trans-cultural approach is closely associated with the individuals` integration in the society. The Romany, whose care of health has often been problematic, represent the most numerous minority in the Czech Republic th...

Backgound: The kidney is an essential organ in regulating the electrolyte balance. With the progression to advanced renal insufficiency, disturbances occur, with frequent increases in the level of potassium, which lead to a significant increase in morbidity and mortality in this group of patients, most commonly by cardiovascular complications - arrhythmias and sudden death. Since chronic renal failure has become a global problem and is frequently under-diagnosed, it is very important to have a correct diagnosis an...

Teaching Romanian as a foreign language has a long tradition at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and the course is devised for the Preparatory year students who want to study Romanian intensively for 2 semesters. After they graduate the Preparatory year and they obtain a certificate of attendance, they follow differents faculties or universities. What brings them together is the Romanian language, general Romanian on the first semester and on the second semester they follow the Romanian for Specific Purpose...

This text is a trial to embrace the problem of the passive construction in East Europe, including Poland, in terms of economic and legal conditions and the experience gained through centuries of traditional construction. The researches, focused on the analysis of source literature, compared and grabbed analogies between modern solutions of energy-saving construction and traditional solutions of vernacular architecture in Podlasie region. The emphasis was put on those features of passive house, which allow to lower...

Rehabilitation after brain injury involves many professionals from hospitals, general practices and local structures. The present paper presents new approaches in rehabilitation education of medical professionals in the framework of an Erasmus + project entitled “Interdisciplinary cooperation in rehabilitation of children and youth with acquired brain damage NEUROPED-REHAB”. The project is based on collaboration between hospitals and research centers from France, Denmark and Romania and intends to describe a compr...

The purpose of research was to assess trends and problems in the formation and development of state control over the targeted and rational use of budgetary funds in Russia. To achieve this goal, the Russian Federation normative legal acts from 1993 to 2017 were studied, as well as practitioners' and theorists' expert assessments directly involved in the process of state financial external control mechanisms formation. During the study, the authors identified the following trends in the external state financial con...

The modern urban planning needs to be flexible and take into account the urban environment transformation during the mega-event organization process. Most of the researchers agree that, so called, mega-events have the significant influence on different aspects of the host city’s life. Major of them also tend to evaluate the character and the degree of this impact. The research represents quite comprehensive data. The approaches used for selecting and grouping the impact of mega-events are chosen randomly. The auth...

Students of non-linguistic universities are currently being exposed to ever more extensive English classes. With this category of students, the least developed methods of teaching Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) are the ones designed to develop the skills of specialised terminology usage. Since terminology forms the core of a professional language, it can be viewed as a conglomerate of its basic attributes and properties. Terms are the most mobile layer of the vocabulary, subject to constant and intensive enr...

This paper is concerned with linguacultural peculiarities of slogans featured in advertising discourse. Advertising discourse finds its way into all kinds of institutional communication thanks to its thematically unrestricted nature, genre distinctiveness and its propensity to capture the most inconspicuous manifestations of the ever-changing world. This type of discourse is considered most exemplary as it can reflect the latest trends of socio-linguistic realia within a single slogan, which is viewed as a composi...

Intra party democracy is of great importance for political parties worldwide for many reasons, perhaps one of the main significant one having to do with their capacities to build functional democracies in the contemporary world. There is a sufficient body of theoretical knowledge on intra party democracy in general. Besides this, much has been researched on intra party democracy around the world, but when it comes to the Republic of Macedonia researchers have barely “screeched the surface” of such a complex issue....

An essential part of European social policy is the children's and youth policy that should become a priority area for EU politicians. It must use the best tools for the fostering of the child and youth wellbeing. Interest in children’s well-being is increasing in Latvia and Europe, particularly in the field of science and at schools, e.g. schools are increasingly offered to participate in surveys concerning children’s and young people’s well-being. In order to improve the level of well-being of children and young ...

The documents and data used by scientists to "do research" have become digital and the exchanges of these have accelerated since the invention of the web. Accessing, distributing and sharing via the web is today at the heart of the practices of scientists and students. At the beginning, the web was the support and the vector of the diffusion of the documents and remained at the bottom of the documentary databases, in more or less closed systems. The information is interlinked by hypertext or hypermedia relationshi...

There has been a trend towards the destruction of semantic unity between the past, present and future generating significant gaps in social memory of the people in the XXI century. The pace of sociocultural changes become extremely high. All these challenges relate to the process of globalization, strengthening of mass communications unification and unpredictable consequences of modernization projects. Challenges of modern situation demand a participation of new specialists in educational process who have interdis...

Above all, this article analyses the distinction of the contemporary Russian political and legal transition from state-centered social structure to human-centered society. The former presupposes that sociopolitical relations are subject to the etatization of socium and individuals and laws substantially limit human freedoms. The latter is based on the priority of human rights and freedoms, which is fundamental for a social state of law. In the 1990s there were certain efforts to approach the second type of develop...

The article discusses the relevance of using the Intergenre Model of Scientific Text while teaching master students how to write primary genres in English. On the basis of the analysis of the Federal State Educational Standards for Higher Education in Russia the importance of teaching master students as research-oriented ones to write in English a scientific report and an abstract for a conference is emphasized. The characteristics of the primary scientific genres are given in the article while distinguishing betw...

Due to its favourable geographic position in the centre of Romania, the tourist destination of Bra?ov has continuously developed. Being located in a picturesque mountainous area and having tourist potential which combines elements of the natural environment with cultural and historical values, nowadays Bra?ov has become one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Romania. Hence, the most important objectives of this paper were to identify the current changes in the tourism market and to highlight the possib...

This study presents the results of students’ work from Hafen City University in Hamburg and Gdansk University of Technology, carried out as part of a joint studio dealing with Nowy Port problem area. It refers to the methodology and design proposals, as well as to individual projects of students from Gdansk University of Technology - Spatial Management and Architecture. The aim of this study is to present framework project guidelines resulting from in-depth analyzes and projects of international groups to show des...

In the national musical art of the 21st century, there is a tendency of active conversion to folklore, an interest in folk "roots" is increasing, and the study and expression of ethnic music traditions in composer creativity. Creating modern national works, young composers of Tatarstan boldly experiment: they combine different styles (electronics, rock, folk, country); ethnic instruments of the Tatars (kurai, dombra, kyl-kubyz) in combination with the classical symphonic orchestra are engaged, they conduct experim...

Agriculture is an important sector of the economy in the European Union (EU) and milk production is one of the most significant agricultural sectors in Latvia. It has proven itself as the sector with stable development and future perspective. The purpose of this study is to analyse the dairy sector in Latvia and trends in its historical development and the future perspectives. To reach these purposes research tasks were set which helped to analyse the key elements of dairy sector in Latvia. This study allowed to c...

The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between aspects of mindfulness, adaptive functioning, emotional problems and somatic complaints in older Latvian adults. The study participants were 287 adults (215 women, 72 men) without serious cognitive or functional impairments, ages 60 to 91 years. They completed the Older Adult Self-Report and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale. The results showed that the women indicated higher depression, anxiety and worry ratings than the men, but the women also rep...

Background: The period of adolescence is often considered the most difficult and the most important period of human life, which includes the modulation of basic human values. In the period of adolescence, primary prevention plays a key role because this is the time when life and eating habits form. Methods: The research was carried out using a 52 item non-standardized questionnaire. This paper presents partial results collected from the questionnaire. The research sample consisted of 1130 respondents living in Sou...

The aim of the article is to present the methods supporting the internationalization of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the Czech Republic. The SME sector in this country is identified, and the methods used in this country to support internationalization are presented. The article assumes that supporting small and medium-sized enterprises is crucial for the success of the internationalization process. Currently, the foundations of the modern economy are companies from the sector of small and medium...

The article compares the buildings of historical campuses of four technical universities located in areas related to Polish culture. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, several new technical universities were established in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1844, the Technical Academy was opened in Lviv. In 1899, the Russian who were occupying the east and central part of Poland established the Polytechnic Institute in Warsaw. Soon after two technical universities were established in the eastern part of Pruss...

On the European trail of the residences of the princely Radziwi?? family, reaching from Western Poland to the present Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine, there is one of the most important palaces, hailing from the times of the Renaissance. The palace in Nie?wie? in today’s Belarus was built on the ruins of the former fortifications by Miko?aj Krzysztof Radziwi?? (dubbed Sierotka, the Little Orphan) in the years 1582-1604. An Italian architect, Jan Maria Bernardoni, designed the palace. The significance of that resid...

Sustainable both rural and urban roads need appropriate engineering design. Behavior of pavement unbound layers and subsoil can be predicted within either standardized laboratory tests or tests in situ. The first option brings inexactness caused by sampling and test presumptions. The second one takes lot of time and money and in case of reconstruction blockades traffic which is often unacceptable mainly in urban areas. Full-scale laboratory testing can bring useful combination of both of approaches, i.e. tests are...

A child with disabilities means for the family confrontation with new problems. The presence of the child changes the functioning of the family, the quality of life of all its members, and also modifies the needs of the family. The contribution is focused on the detection of needs within the family system. The method of data collection was the standard Bailey and Simeonsson Family Questionnaire (1988) which focuses on 6 areas of need - the need for family support, the need for information, the need to explain to o...

Enhancement of English language competence in professional communication can be a great challenge for both teachers and students. This scientific paper aims to showcase the effective implementation of project-based technologies in the formation of appropriate mastery of professional language proficiency among students of architectural and building specialities (on the basis of English language) through simulated professional situations. The application of project-based methods as a powerful technique for the devel...

This article describes method of banking activities in the field of the Internet of banking of Russia. The issue of personal finance management services is relevant both for individuals and for families dealing with budget deficits and budget surpluses. Modern financial relations into which a citizen enters tend to become more complicated. This fact makes it necessary for subjects who manage personal finances to master a sufficiently high level of financial literacy. Therefore, personal finance management skills a...

The paper investigates memory narratives in contemporary Latvian and North American life-writing with the focus on Latvian writer Anita Liepa's autobiographical fiction and Canadian writer Alice Munro's short stories. The theoretical framework of the paper is related to the fast developing memory culture after the end of the Cold War in Europe and Latvia as well as globally, and sketches out the theoretical framework of memory writing referring to the studies of Maurice Halbwachs, Pierre Nora, Paul Ricoeur, Aleida...

This paper recognizes four distinct approaches underlying the theoretical works during the late 19th and 20th century. In the first two, authors were searching for a model morphological solution – prototype - in response to new arising requirements of society and technology. The morphological solutions were either consistent or inconsistent with traditional morphology When real life applications of some of these models, especially the morphological experiments, proved to be, mildly put, a disappointment, the third...

The formation of independent Kazakhstan after the collapse of the USSR (1991) led to a change in the language situation, the formation of language policy, and language construction. The most urgent topics in society were the questions of the revival of the vitality of the state language – the Kazakh language; the narrowing of the spheres of functioning of the Russian language; and the transition from Cyrillic to Latin. There was a large number of scientific articles analyzing the language situation of Soviet Kazak...

The paper focuses on the paradox of material implication with the special reference to the Duns Scotus Law associated therewith. The article contains two different proofs of this law. The paper also seeks to evaluate the role of this law in the proof theory and the damage caused to the latter by the multitude of non-classical approaches in logic which call this law into question. The paper also addresses the conditions upon which the statements about empty sets are possible and evaluates the relevance of material ...

Using e-learning platforms in universities in Romania has become a habit, surpassing trends and integrating naturally in a modern educational system. The objective of this article is to show what are the most used platforms in major universities in Romania and why they have been chosen. If high schools in Romania e-learning platforms were introduced centrally through a project of the Ministry of Education, universities have relied on university autonomy. We have identified and analyzed the main e-learning platform...

Current marketing communication has to respond flexibly to the needs of customers who create the demand side of the market. The side of the market supply is created by enterprises which trying to provide customers with the highest value in the form of the products or services. Customers are endeavouring to maximise their utility and enterprises are striving to maximise their profit. In the current business climate, marketers have to differentiate their attitude depending on the customer. The study deals with the r...

Visual elements always performed important functions in journalistic publications: they added to the information, made it more vivid and clear and helped varying the text component. Nowadays along with the development of Internet media the role of visualization significantly increased. It may perform as a complete language for communication allowing the construction of narratives along with the verbal language and provision of coherence and continuity of message. The given article considers the role of visual elem...

The justice system must be independent and unbiased and in accordance with international standards and not serve as an instrument to protect the politics of power and business structures and politics related to power holders. Therefore, the whole country should have inclusive reforms in judicial power and prosecution as a precondition for restoring citizens’ trust, institutions that will guarantee that the executive and legislative power do their functions in accordance to legal acts and international standards. T...

‘War of the Knights’ (Ritter Krieg) is a medieval alchemical narrative, written in the form of judicial combat between the allegorical figures of the Sun (gold) and Mars (iron). The purpose of the study is to show that if one considers the verbal duel of the ‘knights’ not as alchemic dispute, but as a clash of interests of various medieval social classes, the contents of the book is clear, and the alchemist is engaged in the analysis of the historical and socio-political situation in the late Middle Ages. The meth...

The objective of this article is to analyze marketing channels used by economic entities to engage consumers of private banking services on the Russian market, which is characterized by significant limitations on disclosure of consumer information. The article also aims to identify specificities of designing marketing channels on such markets and define future trends of their development. Analysis of marketing channels, used to engage consumers of private banking services, is based on results of a survey and in-de...

In the article the author proceeds from the conception that family as a social institution takes a significant part in socialization of the child, being the basic support and a pattern for imitation as a model of the world around. The relations of parents between themselves and the relations of parents with children form a sense-value sphere of the child and as a result his/her life-sense strategies which direct the future life of the child. The theoretical grounds of the research are based on the theories of mean...

Compared to the separate production of electric and thermal energy from conventional sources of fuels, their combined generation in a Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP), produces a primary energy saving of at least 10%. This savings can also be translated by a proper reduction of pollution caused by combustion of fuels and thus by contributing to maintaining sustainable development. However, there are also situations where cogeneration can be extended to produce many more forms of useful energy, using the same ma...

The aim of the article is to analyse the role and importance of international issues in shaping the program objectives and political activities of the national workers' party. This movement was created in 1920 by way of consolidation of previously functioning political, professional and social organizations. It took a centrist position on the Polish political scene of the interwar period. Being a democratic movement, it assessed the international situation from this perspective. The issue of Poland's security (esp...